1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: Fire away care which starts? 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: Somebody start Mike, obviously, uh, lesson learned here? 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: With the turnovers, you guys had lots obviously, No, I 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: mean we've known, don't We don't need to learn a 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: lesson and we don't need to learn a football game 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: to know that turnovers, uh are are very hard to overcome. 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: So they erase all the good things that you do. 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: They take away momentum, they take away points, give them 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: field positions. So we didn't need to turn it over 10 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: as many times we did to learn a lesson. I 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: think we knew that before, so it was very unfortunate. 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: Come on. 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: To what do you attribute the turnovers penalties? 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: I mean the penalties, I mean, we clean up, but 15 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: the penalty is like, you know, there's called a couple, 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: you know, defensive holes. They called on them, but you know, 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you'd have to tell me that that penalty 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: to on on Carlton Davis is actually defensive pass interference. 19 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: And that's that's new for me. And again I think 20 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: that the turnovers are much more critical than the than 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: the penalties, much more critical. You know, ball security comes 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: down to technique, It comes down to other people protecting 23 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: the guy with the ball, second guy in. Those are 24 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: all things that we continue to talk about, have talked about, 25 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about. And decision making. This decision making 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: when you have the football in your hand, whether that's 27 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: a quarterback, whether that's a player that's reaching it and 28 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: it gets knocked out. So we'll we'll watch the tape 29 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: and we'll we'll we'll clearly address the ball security and 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: we got to move on, fix it and move on. 31 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: Christ in the middle of the back, Mike, is this 32 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: a game where you felt like you kind of beat 33 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: yourselves and put yourselves in a position to win, but 34 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: the turnovers obviously did away with that. I think it 35 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: just I'm not gonna state the obvious, man, we just 36 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: have to not give them so many chances with turnovers. 37 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: Take care of those things, and you know, there's a 38 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: lot to clean up, a lot of good in there, 39 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: but unfortunately, just not enough to get us to win, 40 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: to get us to you know, really have any sort 41 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: of advantage in the football game. Every time I felt 42 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: like we were gonna take the momentum and be able 43 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: to score and move forward in the game. And you know, 44 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: the defense did a great job there. Unfortunately they just 45 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: got to be one too many opportunities on their part. 46 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: Sorry I came in a little late if you already 47 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: talked about it, but just kind of a quick post 48 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: game feeling about Drake and what you saw today. You know, 49 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: a lot of visions, Yeah, a lot of good and 50 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: unfortunately some some decisions that have to be better. I'm 51 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: sure we'll have to protect them better. And just understanding 52 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: that you don't have to win it all on one play. 53 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: There's opportunities to uh move on and and and save 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the day the next play, and you can't put the 55 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: ball in harm's way at that position. But he you know, 56 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: certainly Drake wasn't all but there's a lot of really 57 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: good things in there. It's ability to extend plays, scramble, 58 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: pick up first downs for us, run a multiple plays 59 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: inside the pocket, outside the pocket. So there's there's a 60 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,119 Speaker 1: lot of good things in there, and just some decision 61 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: making that we need to have h be better for 62 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: us and for himself. Mike, the sequence at the end 63 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: of the second quarter, you're getting close. What was it 64 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: about the Steelers defense that that made throwing the ball 65 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: three straight times? 66 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: The right car just. 67 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: Loaded up, you know what I mean, just loaded up 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: and really just gapping you out, you know, going with 69 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: you know, bigger personnel. And again, we like some of them, 70 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: you know, we we like some of the plays, and 71 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: you know, when they don't work and we don't execute them, 72 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: certainly always room for second guessing. So we whether we 73 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: run it in or throw it in, we have to 74 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: execute and make great decisions. And we did it. But uh, 75 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: you know, that was something that we felt like, we 76 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: felt good about those plays, and we just again weren't 77 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: able to execute. Probably we're able to you know, slip 78 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: a running there on fourth down. We had timeouts, some 79 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: opportunities to call it based on the look and then 80 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: you know, let the quarterback make a decision. So some 81 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: of those are two way calls that go in when 82 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: you're down there and trying to just get the best play. Mike, 83 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm just curious what you saw on that final fourth 84 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: down conversion that was the only one that to not 85 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: work out today. Look like they pressured us and Drake 86 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: got the ball out and again probably have to just 87 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: drop step and be able to knife and I don't 88 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: know those are going to be bang bang plays and 89 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: try to split them and get you know, get the 90 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: first down. It's hard to circle around some defenders. I 91 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: didn't have the best view of it, so I would 92 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: say that the decision that pop MAKEE wasn't wasn't the 93 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: right one there just because we didn't We didn't get 94 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: it right, So you gotta try to either drop step 95 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: or make a miss. 96 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 2: Mike, you went for fourth down deep in your own 97 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 2: territory at at one point. Were you chasing momentum at 98 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 2: that point? And did you feel this was a game 99 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: that your team kind of needed that to get going 100 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 2: and given the way it was going. 101 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: I just want to be aggressive, want to be decisive 102 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: and aggressive and give these guys opportunities to win the game. 103 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: And felt like those were good calls for us. The 104 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: players executed it and and we're just weren't able to 105 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: score off of some of them. Right, Mike, you mentioned 106 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: the turnovers, erase all the good things that you do. 107 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: You guys go down fourteen nothing, But what did you 108 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: think of your defense for most of the rest of 109 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: the game. Resilient, you know, I mean, we've got to 110 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: be better in the red zone when they do get there. 111 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: I think they settled down, really played the type of 112 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: defense that we expect, you know, except for the last 113 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: drive there. So again you got to go wherever they 114 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: put the ball down. You just keep reminding them to 115 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: go play defense, and they did and they got stops 116 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: and there was energy, and you know, we just got 117 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: to keep trying to turn the ball over. You see 118 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: how critical that is when we can do that, and 119 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: finding opportunities to get it out of the quarterback's hand 120 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: or you know, when they do fumble it, you know, 121 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: try to keep it in bounds or recover it. You know, 122 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: it's just close game of inches, and we weren't able 123 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: to recover the fumble and they were had plenty of chances. 124 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: Mike, how do you handle Ramandra Stevenson with two fumbles? 125 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're you know what I mean, it's psychy sit there, 126 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: and we were so excited about him, and everybody's excited 127 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: about him, the fans are, and we know what his 128 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: capabilities are. You know, we got to get him back. 129 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: We need him, We absolutely need him. You see what 130 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,679 Speaker 1: he was able to do for us last Week's ability 131 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: to make some plays and you know, again we'll just 132 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: have to look at the technique, we'll have to look 133 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: at the ball security, but we're gonna need him we 134 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: need his ability, but we also need to take care 135 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: of football. So it's a long answer to tell you 136 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: that I'm not really sure twenty minutes after the game 137 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, but we need them because we won. 138 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: How he helped us win the game last week and 139 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: it was a different story today. And Mike, I understand 140 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: you'll leap the points on the field, but you were 141 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: also able to put together some long drives. How do 142 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: you think this could help you to beauty or team's 143 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: identity offensively? Yeah, I appreciate that question. I do you 144 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: know we have we have to score. You have to 145 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: score in this league. You have to you know, again, 146 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: I'm great with the long, long drives. We're gonna have 147 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: to continue to use that and gain confidence, but we 148 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: have to find ways to create explosive plays. It's hard 149 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: to drive the ball nineteen plays. Impressive that we can 150 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: do that, but it's also a reminder that you have 151 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: to hit some xt plays and you have to continue 152 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: to score touchdowns when you get down there after nineteen plays. 153 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: So and I appreciate that, Thank you, Thank you, Mike.